cisco
See also: Cisco
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪskəʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɪskəʊ
Noun
cisco (plural ciscos or ciscoes)
- Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.
Derived terms
- longjaw cisco (Coregonus alpenae)
- lake cisco, northern cisco, lake herring (Coregonus artedi)
- deepwater cisco (Coregonus johannae)
- blackfin cisco (Coregonus nigripinnis)
- shortnose cisco (Coregonus reighardi)
- shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus)
- least cisco (Coregonus sardinella)
- Bering cisco (Coregonus laurettae)
- Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis)
- sardine cisco (Coregonus sardinella)
- European cisco (Coregonus albula, Coregonus trybomi, Coregonus lucinensis, "Coregonus vandesius")
- Stechlin cisco (Coregonus fontanae)
Translations
References
cisco (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Coregonus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Coregonus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons- cisco at OneLook Dictionary Search
- cisco in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- The Great Minnesota Fish Book
Galician
Etymology
Unknown. Unlikely from Latin cinisculum, which could not explain the Spanish cisco which was attested first; perhaps from Proto-Celtic *sexskā (“rushes, sedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθisko̝/, (western) /ˈsisko̝/
Noun
cisco m (plural ciscos)
References
- “cisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “cisco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cisco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. cisco.
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 331
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin cinisculum.
Pronunciation
Spanish
Pronunciation
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /ˈθisko/
- (Latin America) IPA(key): /ˈsisko/
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cisco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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